Sister Dora Dumbuya commonly known as Mammy Dumbuya is a

Sierra Leonean The demographics of Sierra Leone are made up of an indigenous population from 18 ethnic groups. The Temne in the north and the Mende in the south are the largest. About 60,000 are Krio, the descendants of freed slaves who returned to Sierra L ...

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evangelist

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and the owner and senior

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of Jesus is Lord Ministries

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, a large evangelist Christian church located in the capital of

Freetown Freetown () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Sierra Leone. It is a major port city on the Atlantic Ocean and is located in the Western Area of the country. Freetown is Sierra Leone's major urban, economic, financial, cultural, e ...

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. Mammy Dumbuya is known in Sierra Leone and her

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and preaching have thousands of followers. She is the

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of former Sierra Leonean senior

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K.M.S. Dumbuya, who was

executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence (law), sentence ordering that an offender b ...

in December 1992 under the NPRC

military junta A military junta () is a system of government led by a committee of military leaders. The term ''Junta (governing body), junta'' means "meeting" or "committee" and originated in the Junta (Peninsular War), national and local junta organized by t ...

government. In April 2007, Sierra Leone president

Ahmad Tejan Kabbah Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (16 February 1932 – 13 March 2014) was a Sierra Leonean politician who served twice as the 3rd President of Sierra Leone, from 1996 to 1997 and again from 1998 to 2007. An economist and attorney by profession, Kab ...

honoured Dumbuya with one of Sierra Leone's highest awards, during a

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in Freetown in celebration of Sierra Leone's 46th anniversary of independence.Sayoh Kamara
"Kabbah Recognises Deserving Men & Women in Sierra Leone"
, ''Awareness Times Newspaper'', 30 April 2007, retrieved 21 February 2014

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